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Survey: UA students more disruptive than ever
Disruptive behavior in UA classrooms, including tardiness, talking and early departures has increased, according to a survey of general education faculty conducted last spring and summer.
The Office of the Dean of Students e-mailed the survey to all 280 faculty who teach tier one and tier two courses. Sixty instructors responded to the survey.
Faculty were asked to indicate the extent to which certain behaviors such as sleeping and dominating discussion, devices like beepers and cell phones, and lack of personal hygiene have disrupted their classrooms.
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Likins releases plan to make UA Īdiverse'
President Pete Likins released a comprehensive plan to increase diversity among faculty, staff and students at the UA in a memo Wednesday.
The "Diversity Action Plan" lists both short term and long term steps that the entire UA community must take in order to recruit and retain diverse faculty, staff and students, ensure academic fairness, and incorporate diversity into campus activities.
"One of the most important parts of the plan is the hiring of new faculty," said Elizabeth Ervin, vice-provost of academic affairs. "Hopefully we'll be able to locate more qualified minority faculty and persuade them to become candidates."
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Employee charged with stealing $10,000 from UA
A university employee was charged with fraud and theft after he spent upwards of $10,000 buying items such as a lawnmower and a satellite dish on a university credit card, according to university police reports.
Remohn Howard, 30, a senior application systems analyst for the department of molecular and cellular biology was arrested Oct. 17 and is being charged with three counts of fraud, one count of theft and one count of interfering with an educational institution, the report stated.
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Viewpoints
After students camped out overnight and nearly trampled each other Monday morning in pursuit of the hottest tickets in town, thousands pounded redial early yesterday morning trying to call in to get a pair of basketball tickets. The Wildcat asked students:
1. Did you try to get basketball tickets? If so, were you successful?
2. How should the McKale Center ticket office sell student basketball tickets?
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Forum draws businesses to Eastern Europe, CIS
Business leaders representing five countries from Eastern Europe and the independent states of the former Soviet Union, together with businessmen from several western U.S. states, will join representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce on campus this weekend for workshops on bringing American businesses to the economically developing countries.
The Ninth Annual Commonwealth of Independent States & Eastern Europe Business Forum, hosted by the Russian and Slavic Languages department, will kick off at 7:30 p.m. today in McClelland Hall, Room 208.
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On the Spot
Education major on stealing candy from kids, plus meshing pigs, cowgirls and rock stars
WILDCAT: Are you planning on dressing up?
GATELY: Yes, but I don't have a costume yet, so I'm going to have to put together something from the last few years.
WILDCAT: What are you thinking about?
GATELY: Well, I was a pig last year and I was a cowgirl the year before. I've also been an '80s rock star. So I'll put those all together somehow.
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Arts Briefs
Dia de los Muertos exhibit kicks off with 9/11 commemoration
Tonight at 5, join the spirited celebration of the age-old Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). This year "Two Towers: Viva Los Muertos," two three-diminesional 12-foot-high towers memorializing the events of Sept. 11, 2001, will be featured.
The reception will include entertainment by a Mariachi group and traditional Day of the Dead refreshments. The exhibit closes on Nov. 29, 2002.
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Fast facts:
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Twenty kinds of kisses are described in the "Kama Sutra," the classical Indian text on eroticism.
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Brain-wave activity in humans changes when we catch the punch line of a joke.
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In 1977, the legendary Groucho Marx died three days after the death of Elvis Presley. Unfortunately, due to the fevered commotion caused by Presley's unanticipated death, the media paid little attention to the passing of the comic.
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The modern Christmas custom of displaying a wreath on the front door of one's house is borrowed from ancient Rome's New Year's celebrations. Romans wished each other "good health" by exchanging branches of evergreens. They called these gifts strenae after Strenia, the goddess of health.
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In 1512, Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome were revealed to the public for the first time. Michelangelo painted the frescoes, considered some of the finest pictorial images of all time, while lying on his back on a scaffolding high above the chapel floor.
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In 1765, the Stamp Act, the first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies by the British Parliament, went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
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In 1950, Charles Cooper joined the Boston Celtics' lineup at a game in Fort Wayne, Ind., making him the first black man to play in the National Basketball Association.
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In 1973, in the wake of the Saturday Night Massacre, Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
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Quotable...
"When it comes to us, we're disposable commodities."
÷ Chuck D, the founder of the hip-hop group Public Enemy, on record companies and the advertising creating "a climate of violence" in the rap industry.
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